I saw some routers lockup (totally died with no response to PING or Telnet unless a reboot) in the lab environment when the traffic generator sent traffic at wired speed (100M) to the router for 10 minutes with small packet (64byte). it is because they have limited resource to process the packets
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Aloysius Thevarajah Lloyd < [email protected]> wrote: > Bill, > > I do not know what kind of lockups you r referring. > > But I have some Linksys WRT54GL + Tomato not rebooted for more than one > year > now.Never have any problem. > > Lloyd > > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Bill Sandiford < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > I currently have a WRT54GL in my home running the MLPPP version of > Tomato, > > and it is pretty solid but does lock up from time to time. The lockups > > aren't to troublesome in my home situation, but would be annoying in a > > business environment. > > > > We found the same thing in the field for most of the readily available > > routers, whether they be Linksys, D-Link, Buffalo or otherwise. Most of > the > > time they were pretty good, but in certain circumstances they just locked > > up, or wouldn't reconnect PPPoE after an outage, or other weird stuff. > > > > For that reason, we are now solely deploying Cisco 1721 routers for all > of > > our business customer deployments (whether they use VoIP or not). You > can > > pick them up on eBay from a variety of sources for < $100. I think we > > bought 100 of them for $50 each. Then we put the WIC-1ADSL card into the > > router (they are also around $50 on eBay). In some cases we put in 2 DSL > > cards and bond the links with MLPPP. > > > > The great part of this solution is that for around $100 (for the single > > DSL, or $150 for dual) we get a router that runs Cisco IOS and all the > great > > things that come along with that. The reliability is outright > > awesome...they just never need to be rebooted. > > > > The downside is no web interface, so you have to know Cisco IOS or be > > fairly comfortable with a command-line interface. Also, there is no > > wireless in this series of routers, so you will need some sort of > > stand-alone AP if the customer wants wireless (most of them do). > > > > Regards, > > Bill > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Wai Vii [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 6:06 PM > > To: TAUG Technical > > Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] Router Recommendations > > > > Another vote for Tomato, the traffic shaping works great whereas it > > just seemed to cause problems with DD-WRT. Used to have DD-WRT loaded > > on up to ten WRT54GS but found it slower than Tomato and the interface > > more cumbersome. > > > > Another vote for the ASUS routers mentioned. Heard that the Buffalo > > routers are OK too but I've never used one before. If you want to > > spend a bit more, consider Soekris or Routerboard. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > -- Thank you Patrick Song Thinking globally, Networking locally CCVP, CCNP, M.Eng in Telecommunications Cell:1-647-868-2950
